Sher-Gil work fetches Rs 4.75 cr

New Delhi, June 10

An untitled landscape painted by Amrita Sher-Gil sold for Rs 4.75 crore (USD 720,000) at Saffronart’s online auction, which fetched a total sales of Rs 20.65 crore, auctioneers said today.

Sher-Gil’s Untitled (Zebegeny Landscape) led the sale against a pre-sale estimate of Rs 3.9 crore to Rs 5.2 crore. Sher-Gil was the country’s foremost woman artist, whose brief career spanning just over a decade had a deep impact on Indian art.

Made in 1931, the landscape was painted during a summer holiday she spent in the Hungarian village of Zebegeny on the banks of the Danube.

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An Untitled work (after Titian’s Venus of Urbino and Manet’s Olympia) by FN Souza sold for Rs 1.22 crore compared to a pre-sale estimate of Rs 1.1 -1.3 crore.

Subodh Gupta’s stainless steel installation sold for Rs 1.10 crore against an initial estimate of Rs 99 lakh to Rs 1.3 crore.

SH Raza’s ‘Horizon’ sold for over Rs 1 crore against an estimate of Rs 66 lakh to Rs 99 lakh. Nearly 24 per cent of the lots sold above their upper estimates. 

Among the contemporary Indian artists, there was a strong demand for works by Sudarshan Shetty and Chintan Upadhyay. — PTI